Peanuts

Album: Outlandos d'Amour (1978)
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Songfacts®:

  • This was written by Sting and Police drummer Stewart Copeland. Sting remembers writing it in his car on the way home from a late-night recording session in Leatherhead, Surrey, England. He recalled in Lyrics By Sting: "I was thinking about a former musical hero who had dwindled to a mere celebrity, and I was more than willing to pass judgment on his extracurricular activities in the tabloids, never thinking for a moment that I would suffer the same distorted perceptions at their hands a few years later."

    Sting became so wary of the media that he wouldn't even attend his parents' funerals, fearing the press would create a spectacle.

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  • Angus from Ottawa, CanadaAny idea who Sting's music hero was? The only name I know is Gil Evans
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